ScribeWare Directions
  • 🚀Welcome to the ScribeWare Training Site
  • Getting Started
    • 📃Overview
    • ✨ScribeWare and Desktop Basics
      • 📗Understanding Chapters and Sections
      • 📈The Left Side Bar
      • ☑️Understanding Data Fields
      • 🚩Understanding Narratives
      • 🖊️Adding Observations
      • 🚩The Difference Between Narratives and Templates
      • 🎥Photos and Videos
      • 🗡️Cutting and Pasting Media Into a Report
      • ❓How Desktop and Mobile Work Together
    • Ideas for Multi-Family
    • 🚘The Mobile Version
      • 📙Written Overview of the Mobile App
      • 📽️Video Overview of the Mobile App
      • 🏗️Adding and Renaming Chapters and Sections
      • ➕Adding Pictures from Your Mobile Device's Gallery into a ScribeWare Report
      • 🔗How Syncing Works
      • 💉Photo Annotations on Mobile Using iMarkup
      • 💪Voice-to-text Tips For Scribers
    • 📸Managing Photos, Videos and Illustrations
      • 🎥Connecting Photos and Videos to Use in Your Report
      • 💉Picture in Picture Photo Editing
      • 🦅Tagging Photos
      • 📎The Report Directory
      • 📂External Media and Illustration Folders
      • 📉Adding Illustrations to The Illustrations Folders
    • 📩Submit Feedback for Desktop and Mobile
    • 🙏Finish Report Overview with The Request List Builder
    • 🥉Gunnysacks and Handling Multiple Defects With The Same System
      • 📸Photo Captions to Bullets Feature
      • 💰Using Gunnysacks to Reduce The Number of Comments You Need to Maintain
  • ADVANCED DESKTOP
    • 🖥️Setting a Summary Statement at the Top of Your Summary Page
    • 🌎Global Keyword Searching on Desktop
    • 🔍Inspector Only Notes
    • 🌳Using Logic Trees
    • ⚡Advanced Workflow for Multiple Defects with the Same System
      • 🚩Inspector Only Notes and Narrative Shortcuts
      • 🚩Gunnysacks and Magic Captions
    • 🎁What's New
  • Customizations
    • 💵Setting Up Your Business
      • ⚙️The Settings
      • ☀️Enter Company and Logo Information
      • 🚃Build Your Team
      • ✈️Build and Manage Your Agreements
    • 🔳Template Customization
      • ❗Be Sure You Understand How Templates Work in ScribeWare
      • 🏚️Building and Editing Descriptive Fields
      • 🪐Moving Fields Between Chapters and Sections
      • 🚆Inspector Only Notes for Blazing Fast Comments
      • 🔝Resequencing and Renaming Chapters and Sections
      • 🩹Recovering Chapters or Sections That Have Been Hidden
      • 🏎️Building Links for Instant-Comments
      • 🎩Tricks for building a super-flexible template that can apply to most jobs
      • 📸Building a Camera or Video Icon Into Your Template for Quick Photo Placement
      • 💣Deleting a Template
    • 🔡Narrative Customization
      • 🐋Understanding Narrative Comments
      • 🆎Editing Your Narrative Library of Pre-Made Comments
      • 🔦Adding Hidden Blue Titles to Your Narratives
      • 🕔Blending Your Imported Library From Another Software Into ScribeWare
      • Blending Library Comments from Another Template Into Your Template
      • 👩‍🎓Saving Illustrations with Narratives
      • 🚀Creating and Editing Text Replacement
      • Using Parent Comments
      • 💰Building Gunnysacks
    • 📙Library Features and Organization
      • 🎁Editing Library Categories
      • ⛏️Using Library Categories to Populate a Section of Your Report With narratives
      • 👜Moving a Narrative from One Section to Another Section of Your Template
      • 🍞Blending Your Library From Another Software Into ScribeWare
      • 🩹Editing and Cutting From Your Library
    • 🎓Adding Illustrations to the Illustrations Folders
    • ⚡Using Descriptions to Power Background Information and CYA
      • 🏰Setting Default Descriptions
      • 🏹Powerful and Effective CYA and Boilerplate
      • 🎙️Inspector Only Notes Where The Comment Stays Hidden
    • 🔌The Power of Boilerplate
    • 🖊️Contracts and Agreements
    • 💥The Power of Modifiers
      • 🚲Overview: Observation Modifiers
      • 📺Setting a Default Modifier For a Section
      • 📡Showing No Major Concerns
      • 🪜Adding Sub-Modifiers to the Bottom of Narratives
    • 🕶️Customizing Your Summary Page
    • 🎯Photo Tags
  • Templates, Specialty Templates, Ancillary Services and Odd Jobs
    • 🌏The Narrative Template
    • ✔️Check Box Style With Short Narratives
    • 🗼Condo Inspections
    • 🐜Pest Inspections
    • 🌵Texas TREC Templates
    • ✏️Written Consultations and One-Item Inspections
    • 📽️Sewer Scope Inspection Reports
    • ♻️Re-inspections. Everyone's Favorite!
    • 🎱Pools and Spas
    • 🚒RV Inspections
    • 🌴California EEE Inspections
  • Into The Weeds
    • 📪Using PDF forms
    • Configuring PDF form fills in ScribeWare
      • Adding PDF form fields to your ScribeWare template
      • Uncover your PDF's Database Field names
      • Filling your PDF form with commonly used information
      • Filling your PDF form with field-specific information
      • Adding pages to your PDF with additional information
    • 🏅Customizing the Look of the Report
    • 📎Integrations
      • ISN
      • NXT
      • Zapier
    • 🚩Your Data in ScribeWare
  • Making the transition
    • 🐳How to import your Spectora templates into ScribeWare
    • 🌷How to import your Home Inspection Pro (HIP) template into ScribeWare
    • ℹ️How to import your InspectIt templates into ScribeWare
    • 😎How to import your HomeGauge templates into ScribeWare
    • 👣Transitioning from other software into ScribeWare
  • Frequently Asked Questions
    • ❓What is the difference between Default Descriptions and Default Field Values?
  • Troubleshooting
    • Preview not opening
  • 🚓Troubleshooting Syncing
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  1. Into The Weeds

Configuring PDF form fills in ScribeWare

ScribeWare can be used to fill in virtually any PDF form. This walk through will show you how to configure it for your own forms.

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Overview

In this walk through, you'll learn how to configure the in a report template to pass data into your PDF form when your report is published.

Broadly speaking, this process consists of:

  1. adding chapters, sections and fields to your ScribeWare template, that match the structure and form fields you wish to fill in on your PDF

  2. Determine the database name of each form field in the PDF

  3. Edit the corresponding field in ScribeWare, and configure it to fill in the pdf form with that field's value.

The following pages will go over this process in detail. You may want to work through configuring your form in small chunks to get used to how it works.

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